Show I NEVER MIND THE OLD FOGIES The Tho Republican is in receipt of or a pretty letter from rota a young woman who attends Dr Shorts Short's First Methodist 1 church She commends our editorial comment on Dr Short Shores s sermon of last Jast Sunday and especially his pleasant i Come and if you yon dont don't have havo more fun than you ever had bad at your mother mother- laws law's funeral m my name aint Short The correspondent adds that wo o must be careful not to speak too loud Joud concern concerning ins this matter for there are arc old fogies in the congregation who do not like levity In the Never mind the old fogies The Tho time has come for the young people to assert themselves even In church The They have haye been slaves long Jong enough They will never forget that the they used to sit up straight during seven subheads subheads sub suh heads of a 3 sermon which the they couldn't understand and didn't daro dare go to sleep from beginning to end of It And now that they are arc In the majority ma ma- it Is time for them to have havo things religious served to them in jn their own way If It the they like hike a minister to crack jokes in the pulpit let Jet him crack them If he wants to stir up a laugh all right They are carrying tho the church nowadays ancl and aYR-and and not the old fogies of or orthe tim the on re a lo l' l S W 70 aro oro gl HI Shor V lh I tact to select the tho mother law joke That required a brave and an adroit man With an any common he lie would only half have carried his point With this he threw down the the gauntlet gaunt gaunt- let Jet to all aU and He is not afraid of them Ho has shown it by daring to utter before th them m what on the lips of another man would probably be the oldest and the cruellest the coarsest and antI the dullest of all forms of fun Having chosen that and won indorsement indorsement indorsement indorse indorse- ment for his course Dr Short can well afford to laugh the old fogies to scorn |